During the 2020 covid lockdown and the rising increase in online engagement through platforms like twitter, TwitterTwitter paces and clubhouse, there has been a significant increase in the number of people picking up interest in programming. I mean we have software channels on Instagram and Tik Tok which traditionally anyone who has been in tech for a long time would be surprised and it feels weird. What happened to slack, IRC channels and the likes.

I have witnessed a lot of 100 Days of coding challenges on social media and it has gathered communities together. I have also seen people use the 100 days of programming to gain social currency. Though I am happy there are more people interested in tech, I sometimes wonder if these challenges are genuine? This got me thinking about how I see software development? I thought back to how I started, why I started and what still keeps me in this space. 

Is software development a hobby?